622 ELECTIONS—REGISTRATION. [ART. 33.

land, or of the city of Baltimore, and they must not be candidates
for office at the next ensuing election. Their appointment shall
be mode in the manner particularly prescribed in article 4 of the

Code of Public Local Laws, title, City of Baltimore, sub-title,
"Elections."

1882, ch. 22, sec. 3.

3. Each of the said officers of registration shall have, in addi-
tion to the other powers hereinafter conferred upon him, or
which may be hereafter conferred upon him by law during the
respective times of his appointed sittings, the powers of a justice
of the peace to preserve order and enforce obedience to his law-
ful commands at or around his place of registration; to keep the
access to such place open and unobstructed; to prevent and sup-
press riots, tumult, violence and disorder, and all other improper
practices at, around or near to his place of registration tending
to intimidation or to the obstruction of the work of registration;

or of the revision of the registration, and to protect and keep
safe the registries of voters or poll-books hereinafter referred to
while in his custody and possession; he may compel the presence
of witnesses before him while sitting as an officer of registration,
for all purposes connected with the performance of the duties of
his office, by summons and attachments; he may, while sit-
ting as such officer of registration, commit for trial any per-
son committing, at or around his place of registration, any
offence forbidden by this article; he shall have the power
to issue any of said summons, attachments or commitments
when sitting in any county of this State, to the sheriff of
said county, or to any constable thereof, and when sitting
in the city of Baltimore, to the marshal of police or to any
police officer of said city; all such processes shall be served by
said respective officers, in the same manner as if they were issued
by the judge of a court of record having jurisdiction of the sub-
ject-matter, or by a justice of the peace exercising police powers
within such respective jurisdictions. The sheriff or constable in
any county of this State who shall serve any of said processes,
shall receive the same fees and in like manner as it is or may be
by law provided that he shall receive fees in other State cases,
but no officer of police in the city of Baltimore, shall charge or
receive any fee for any service performed under this article; and